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AUTOGRAPHIU REGISTER. No. 508,553. Patented Nov. 14,1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE'.

` GEORGE MCG. MORRIS AND ROBERT LYTLE STOKES, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO;

' SAID STOKES ASSIGNOR TO SAID MORRIS.

.AUTOG RAPH IC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,553, dated November 14, 1893. Applieatimi filed March 20, 1893. Serial No. 466,967- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE MCG. MORRI andY ROBERT LYTLE SToKEs, citizens of the United States, residing at, Cincinnati, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to autographic registers of the class injwhich a cutting'apparatus i's employed to sever the slips as they pass the feed-out rolls: its object being to provide, as an additional attachment to such machines, a tiling apparatus by which the retained slips may be filed in a convenient manner for preservation and reference in consecutive order.

To this end our invention consists in the devices hereinafter more fully described, embodying a tiling arm or arms operated by suitable connecting mechanism in co-operation with the cutting devices; by which the retained slips are properly tiled upon a removable needle and stand, within the machine.

Mechanism embodying our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of our invention exhibiting its relation tothe complete register. Fig. 2 is a detail plan section ofthe same, omitting the feed-out rolls. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail elevations showing the actuating mechanism in different positions.

Referring now to the drawingsz-A designates the casing of an autographic register, ofthe class designated having a storage roll a', feed-out rolls,'a2, and: a3, and a pivoted cutting knife, a4, with a fixed cutting knife, a5. A dividing bar a6 arranged beneath the rolls,divides the strips as they are fed downward through the rolls, and diverts one strip, a7, to the interior of the machine'and the remaining strip, or strips, as, outward, all as shown in Fig. l. These parts arranged for operation as indicated constitute a typical register to which our invention is applied, bu-t we do not limit ourselves in its application, to this form of register alone.

In applying our invention we place at the bottom of the casing A, a small base piece, B to which is secured a filing needle b, projecting upward. The base piece may be of any form and secured in any convenient manner:

an example of which is shown in the hooked end,b, adapted to engage under a loop, b2, as shown, whereby it is readily removable, and, while in place, is securely heldin proper position for use. In rear of the needle b, a shaft c', is journaled across the casing A, to which is secured a spring arm or arms c,-a convenientv form and vmode of attachment of lwhich isnshown in Figs. l and 2, consisting of a continuous spring wire projecting in the form of a yoke radially from the shaft c, and bent centrally backward to loop around the needle, and produce a uniform distribution of pressure surfaces in relation to the led blanks :c (whose outlines are indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 2). The arm or arms, c',

are held in normal position, ready for use (as in Fig. l) by a counterweight, w, attached to a crank arm= z', connected with a shaft, C; which, when released by the actuating mechanism, returns the arm, d', to and maintains it in the position shown in said Fig. 1.

The actuating mechanism is as follows: At-

tached by a short link, d, to the movable cut-` ting blade, a4, is a reciprocating bar, c guided upon, and in a guide-rest, f, and having a cam or trip projection, e', at its free end. Pivoted above the reciprocating bar, e, in proper actuating relation with the cam-projection e', is a bell-crank g, pivoted, by means of a slot s, to a stud, s', upon the casing, and having a down projecting wedge-point g', constituting the other arm of the bell crank. The .long arm of the bell-crank. is pivotally connected by a connecting rod or link, h', with the crank arm i. In the operation of the movable cutting blade, 0,4, the bar e, is drawn forward, and, as its tip point e', passes under the point g', it lifts the bell-crank g, as permitted by the slot s. As the projection e passes on, the bell crank, g, is behind the trip point, e', as indicated in Fig. 3, by the dotted lines. Upon being released, a spring h, attached to the bar e, at once returns the bar e, to its normal position of rest. In thus passing backward, the point e, engages the proj ection, gv', of the bell-crank g, and, as it passes onward, liftsl the long arm of the bell-crank, and by the connections, h', t', partially rotates the shaft c, carrying the arms c downward, as indicated in Fig. 4, carrying the severed IOO st rip ctT which is thus filed upon the needle upon the previous strips w. The paper strip, al, by the action of the feed-out rolls a2, and a3, naturally curves inward, as shown in Fig. l; which brings itin proper relation to the ling needle b, and beneath the arm, or arms, c', ready for the downward action of the latter, just described. This downward movement, causes the needle, b, to pierce, and retain the strips in a compact pile, m. As the pile increases, the spring arms yield, as may be necessary.

The shaft c, may be dispensed with, and the extremities of the yoke arm c', may be bent outward in a common axis, as journals, to one of which the arm fr', and attachments may be secured.

Where the cutting blades are already supplied With asufficiently powerful spring tending to hold them apart, the spring, h, shown herein, may be omitted.

We claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. In an autographic register the combination of feed-out rolls; arranged at the front of the tablet, a cutting apparatus operating horizontally across the line of feed beneath the rolls; and a vibrating filing arm, pivoted beneath and at the rear of the cutting apparatus and operating in connection with the cutting apparatus to engage and carry down the severed strip, Within the casing to its determined position beneath the tablet, substantially as set forth.

2. In an autographic register, the combination of feed-out rolls; cutting apparatus operating across the line of feed between the rolls: a vibrating filing arm pivoted beneath and in rear of the cutting apparatus to carry the severed strip within the casing to determined position; and a fixed filing needle located beneath the table in the part of the vibrating arm to retain the filed strips substantially as set forth.

3. In an autographic register the combina tion of a pivoted cutting blade operating across the line of paper strips a reciprocated cam or tripping device connected with, and operated by the pivoted cutting blade; a vibrating arm beneath the cutting blade; actuating connections between said arm and the cam or trip device: and a spring connected mediately to the cutting blade to restore it to normal position after use, and in such return to operate the vibrating arm, substantially as set forth.

et. The combination in an autographic register of feed out rolls; a dividing bar; a cutting blade operating across the` line ofy feed below the dividing bar; avibrating filing arm and connecting mechanism below the cutting knife; and spring actuated connections between the vibrating arm and cutting knife; for the actuation of the filing arm simultaneously with the cutting knife, substantially as set forth.

5. In an autographic register, the combination of the movable cutting knife, the actuating spring, the reciprocating bar, the pivoted bell-crank, the shaft, the vibrating arm, connected thereto, and the connections between the latter and the bell-crank, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE MCG. MORRIS. ROBERT LYTLE STOKES.

Witnesses:

L. M. HosnA,

LANDON FREYBLER. 

